Red Vs Blue General Discussion

Huh

So what all was in the personal collection? Dr. Church's gun, York's helmet, the Grif Shot, the alien artifact that housed Epsilon and... is that the spike used to take Tex from her robot body in the finale for S8?

Anything else?

I only saw York's helmet and the Grifshot/Knifle.

Those things don't necessarily make him an asshole. That's just the victor siezing the spoils from his hated enemy. Mind, the director was a guy who tortured an AI to recreate his dead wife. The chairman is a bastard, but not for keeping trophies.

Uh, not gonna agree with you there. Keeping the gun a man killed himself with would be bad enough, but displaying it? In a trophy room? Awful.

I don't think that was York's helmet. That was Epsilon-Tex's helmet when Maine stabbed her with the capture unit.

Shit, you're right. It was on one of the posters too.

Ah yes, that makes a lot more sense.

...can't believe I spaced on that when I referenced Tex getting facestabbed in that same post. Yeesh.

Again, will someone please fix The Other Wiki's RvB character page? It's really horribly organized.

edited 12th May '15 6:31:31 PM by SatoshiBakura

That's a lot of work to do, and it seems as though no one else really cares. If it matters to you, it is Wikipedia, you can edit it yourself since it's not a locked or otherwise restricted page.

Meh, I don't feel like it. And yes, I'm channeling Grif.

....

I can't believe it. Shit makes sense...

HOLY SHIT! Locus had a Heel Realization! It's happening!

And Sharkface spoke! And what happened to him was rather sad.

This entire episode was kind of a Tear Jerker.

This was a very good episode that introduced many very good things. Yes.

Also OH MY GOD FEELINGS ABOUT MANY CHARACTERS

So... what was the "monster"? My first thought was an Elite, but they'd recognize it. Maybe an Engineer?

There was... a whole lot of characterization for previously one-dimensional characters. I liked it.

Councilor. Sharkface... and Locus?

Well, it certainly leaves me with some questions. That they took the previously 'one-dimensional', complete and utter asshole Felix, and the ruthless, uncompromising Locus... and gave them some comedic moments is what really got me.

That alien flashback was weird.

edited 19th May '15 1:32:51 PM by Soble

I would cut off my own left foot to see what Felix saw in the thing. I'm hoping I won't have to, but I'd do it.

The characterization is high this season.

I'm surprised I don't hear more about this series; they had goofy adventures for the first 5 seasons, and questionable Cerebus Syndrome from the 6th to 10th season, but really.

Seasons 11-13, this is turning into a damn good story. When you can make Jerkass villains likable, heck, even tragic, you have my attention. Showing us a little bit of what Locus saw without proper context, then hiding what Felix saw by having him come out first? This suspense is delightful.

edited 19th May '15 5:33:41 PM by Soble

I did like Locus's funny moment. Proves that even the most serious people can get tripped up.

I can tell that something big is going to happen at episode 10.

Something big always happens episode 10.

Double post, but I wrote up some thoughts I had about the portal

After reading your piece, I got to thinking: what if the characters you say are not worthy of being the Great Warrior (and I agree with you on Tucker being the most likely candidate, albeit having to work for it a bit before becoming "worthy") stumble into the portal anyway (possibly as a result of something Caboose does, because of course he would), as well as other characters that weren't mentioned like Grif, Simmons, Donut, Lopez, and the New Republic soldiers who trained under Grif, Simmons, Tucker, and Caboose? Do you think we should see what they might experience in the portal, even if just for a quick gag?

I know I want to.

I want to as well, so very very badly. and it really depends on if they get treated seriously or not. That basically means there's two ways for the more joke based characters to experience the portal.

For instance, Grif had some funny stuff last season about turning into Sarge, so maybe a joke version would be him in Blood Gulch being treated as Sarge. A serious one... that's tricky, but I think it'd boil down to not being able to keep the people he cares about safe, Kai or Simmons. Grif is a pretty hard character to get treating anything seriously, his sister and Simmons being in honest danger is about the extent of it.

That's kind of the thing, the party that's there basically has the most diverse grab bag of fears and/or regrets of the whole cast. Carolina is Freelancer/Failing to protect regrets, Tucker has his stuff about being a leader and getting people killed, Caboose gets left behind, Epsilon is an old AI and Sarge might not consider himself a warrior at all anymore.

Wash is still mostly regretful about what he did in the name of revenge, Grif and Simmons are mostly focused on keeping the people they care about in one piece and family drama, Kimball and Doyle would be focused on the Civil War atrocities and betrayal, Donut doesn't seem to have any regrets and his fears would probably be either getting sticky grenaded, shot, or both, and Lopez isn't a serious enough character period to have serious fears.

Red vs Blue really has a lot of character that don't get deeply explored so much. There's the possibility they use this to reveal new stuff about the characters we didn't know before, but that might be cheap. Depends on execution.

edited 21st May '15 5:43:42 PM by odafangirl

This is a thing, again.

You know, I just thought of something. When you mentioned that Grif's vision could be a representation of his fear of not being able to keep the people he cares about safe (specifically naming Kaikaina [a.k.a. "Sister"] and Simmons), there's one possibility that could arise:

Showing Grif how Lopez could have killed Sister.

It doesn't necessarily have to be confirmation that La Pesado actually managed to do her in (especially since Grif's ice skating anecdote from Relocated seems to indicate that she's Made Of Adamantium), but we haven't seen Sister in a very long time and that would be a good way to work her back in to the show, even if only for a short time.

edited 24th May '15 1:51:10 PM by TrashJack

Oh God! It hurts to laugh!!!! Damnit, I have to wait for you guys to see it! This sucks.